曲げる – Vocabulary details

曲まげる

Meanings

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl

2. to lean; to tilt; to incline; to slant

3. to bend (the truth); to distort; to twist; to pervert

4. to yield (a point); to depart (from a principle); to ignore (what one really thinks)

5. to pawn

Alt. forms

Kanji used

曲

curved

Pitch accent

ま

げる

Conjugations...Used in: 2551

Used in vocabulary (11 in total)

ねじ曲まげる

to twist; to distort

折おり曲まげる

to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double

へそを曲まげる

to get angry; to become perverse

ひん曲まげる

to bend (with great force); to twist; to wrench; to distort (the truth)

くの字じに曲まげる

to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

臍へそを曲まげる

to get angry; to become perverse

つむじを曲まげる

to be contrary

事じ実じつを曲まげる

to falsify a fact

折おり曲まげる

to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double

冠かんむりを曲まげる

to become displeased; to get stubborn

旋毛つむじを曲まげる

to be contrary

Examples (8 in total)

右みぎ腕うでを曲まげられません。

I can't bend my right arm.

少しょう年ねんは考かんがえを曲まげなかった。

The boy didn't change his opinion.

増ます夫おはスプーンを曲まげられる。

Masuo can bend spoons.